Windows 7 BSOD with VMware


  1. Posts : 2
    Windows 7 professional 64
       #1

    Windows 7 BSOD with VMware


    Hi,

    I have Win 7 and had a pretty severe crash earlier in the week that I couldn't recover from nor explain so I did a complete reinstall. Everything with the reinstall of windows seemed to be going ok then I installed vmware and backtrack. Everything worked fine originally running BT.

    To complicate things, I installed vmware from my desktop and then installed backtrack from a copy I had on my windows.old directory but then I accidentally deleted the BT files when cleaning up some space. After that VMware would cause the BSOD (which flickers and is unreadable). I tried to uninstall/reinstall VMware but that hasn't helped, I keep getting the same problem. I wonder if deleting the files is causing this or just a coincidence? Any help would be appreciated. I've attached the dump files.

    Nothing else has caused the computer to act up so far.

    I have a gateway MT 6452, AMD Turion x64 with on board Radeon xpress 1150 video. I also have it set up for triple booting vista, win7 and Lucid.

    Thanks,

    Tom
      My Computer


  2. Posts : 8,383
    Windows 10 Pro x64, Arch Linux
       #2

    BSOD was caused by tifm21.sys, Texas Instruments PCIxx21/PCIxx12 Integrated FlashMedia Controller
    Go to the manufacturer's website and download the latest driver
    http://www.ti.com/

    Code:
    BugCheck 50, {fffffa80424c2ca6, 1, fffff88004b20663, 5}
    
    Unable to load image \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\tifm21.sys, Win32 error 0n2
    *** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for tifm21.sys
    *** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for tifm21.sys
    
    Could not read faulting driver name
    Probably caused by : tifm21.sys ( tifm21+8663 )
      My Computer


  3. Posts : 2
    Windows 7 professional 64
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Thanks, that did the trick. I guess I forgot about the step where I installed the media card reader driver. I couldn't find anything at TI so I downloaded the driver from Gateway and it fixed the problem.

    Thanks again!!!!
      My Computer


 

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